LABOR BOARD SETS HEARING FOR PATHMARK COMPLAINT

CARTERET, N.J. -- Pathmark Stores here will defend its practice of using signing bonuses to attract new pharmacists before the National Labor Relations Board next month, a company spokesman told SN.The NLRB regional office in Newark, N.J., last week scheduled a hearing on a complaint brought against Pathmark by its union pharmacists. The United Pharmacists Guild of United Food and Commercial Workers

CARTERET, N.J. -- Pathmark Stores here will defend its practice of using signing bonuses to attract new pharmacists before the National Labor Relations Board next month, a company spokesman told SN.

The NLRB regional office in Newark, N.J., last week scheduled a hearing on a complaint brought against Pathmark by its union pharmacists. The United Pharmacists Guild of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1000R charged that Pathmark violated its labor contract by issuing the $1,000 b